About the author: Professor Emeritus, Rowan University of New Jersey, 1972-1998. Fran enjoys volunteer work, running, and writing poetry in tropical Key West. Many journals have published his recent work.

Nice image Fran, but what was your viewpoint as writer? Hard to imagine how you could have seen your own body outlined by lightning. Unless perhaps you and whoever makes up the 'our' were watching yourselves in the mirror at the time? :)